Saturday, 7 June 2014
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Former FIFA
president Joao Havelange, 98, remained in stable condition in a Rio de Janeiro
hospital on Friday with a respiratory infection, a hospital spokesman said.
The Samaritano
hospital spokesman said Havelange was admitted Wednesday and was expected to be
released again shortly. The World Cup starts in Brazil on June 12.
Havelange, who
headed FIFA from 1974 to 1998, spent two months in the same hospital in 2012
with a serious ankle infection and heart and respiratory problems.
In December
2011, the former Olympic swimmer stood down as a member of the International
Olympic Committee, which he had served from 1963, shortly before he was to face
allegations of corruption.
Havelange was
investigated over the collapse of FIFA’s former sports marketing agency ISL,
which went bankrupt in 2001 with debts of some $300 million. He stood accused
of receiving money from the agency for granting lucrative World Cup
broadcasting contracts.
Havelange’s
former son-in-law, Ricardo Teixeira, 64, stood down as head of the Brazilian
Football Confederation (CBF) in 2012 amid corruption allegations.
FIFA’s ethics
committee found that Havelange received at least one million dollars in
‘commissions’.
Havelange, who
competed for Brazil as a swimmer at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and in waterpolo
at Helsinki in 1952, played a key role in the modernization of football
administration and turning the sport in a lucrative industry.
He
was an influential member of the Rio bid team which won the right to stage the
2016 Olympics, the first to be staged in South America.
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